Method of securing buttons to materials



(No Model.)

J. MATHISON.

METHOD or SECURING BUTTONS T0 MATERIALS. No. 268,370. Patented Nov. 28.1882.

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JOSEPH MATHISON, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, WILLIAM D.ALLEN, OF SAME PLACE, AND CHARLESB. LANCASTER,

OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

METHOD OF SECURING BUTTONS TO MATERIALS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,370, dated November28, 1882,

I Application filed March 18, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom "it may concern Be it known that I, JosEPH MATHISON, ofLynn, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented'certain Improvements in the Method of Securing Buttons toMaterial, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the fastening of that class of buttonscomposed of a head and an eye projecting therefromto the material orarticle to which such buttons appertain.

The invention has for its object to provide an improved method ofattachment, whereby a series or row of buttons of this class can besecured to a boot or shoe or other article bya single continuous threador cord, each button being'in'dependently secured, so that if the threadshould be severed at points between the buttons none of the fasteningswould be affected.

To this end my invention consists in theimproved method of attachment,which I will now proceed to describe and claim.

The accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,represent the different stages of the operation of securing a button bymy improved method.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all thefigures.

In carrying out my invention, I hold a but ton, A, with its eyesubstantially parallel to the surface of the material 13,130 which thebutton is to be secured, as shown in Figure 1. I may here remark that Iprefer to perform the 3 5 successive operations hereinafter described bya suitable machine having a receptacle for the buttons, automatic meansfor feeding the buttons to the point where they are to be secured, saidmeans being, for example, such as are shown in Letters Patent of theUnited States No. 252,117, issued to me January 10,1882,

and suitable mechanism for forming and interlocking the loopshereinafter described. I do not limit myself, however, to any special 5form of mechanism or means for carrying out my-invention. The buttonbeing held as above described, I first draw through the material 13 andthrough the eye of the button a primary loop, C, which is of such lengthas to extend them into a square knot, which, when its parts are drawntaut, effectually secures the button, so that when a row of buttons areattached in the manner described to a continuous cord or thread theparts of the thread between the secondary loop, D, of one fastening andthe primary loop of the adjacent fastening may be severed or brokenwithout in any wayaftecting either fastening, each being independent ofall the others. The fastening thus formed, besides being independent,constitutes a comparatively stiff connection between the button and thematerial to which it is secured, causing the button to stand outconveniently from the material, instead of hanging loosely. It is alsoeconomical in the consumption of thread. When the fastening is formed bya machine the loops C D will be drawn by a suitable needle, eitherhooked or having an eye, and the loop C will be bent, as shown inFig. 2,by

a lateral movement of the needle, while the latter is raised, so thatthe loop D will be drawn through the loop C, as shown in Fig. 3,

by the next upward movement of the needle- I claim 1. The improvedmethod herein described of securing buttons to material, the sameconsisting in drawing a primary loop of thread through the material andthrough the eye of the button, then drawing a secondary loop through thematerial and through the primary loop outside of the eye of the button,then tightening the primary loop, and finally passing the secondary loopover the button and tightening said loop, thereby forming a square knot,as set forth.

2. The article or material and the buttons thereon, combined with asingle thread having two 1oopsviz., a. primary and secondaryscribingWitnesses, this 15th day of March, A. for each button, the primary 100ppassing D. 1882. through the eye of the button and around the secondary100p, and the secondary loop pass- JOSEPH MATHISON' 5 ing around the eyeof the button, as set forth. Witnesses:

In testimony whereofI have signed my name 0. F. BROWN,

to this specification in the presence of two sub- A. L. WHITE.

